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Read a Q&A with Ulises A Mejias & NICK COULDRY MASTODON @[email protected] on their book, Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back WH Allen Penguin Books UK ➡ ow.ly/MSt650Rse0n
Register to attend the LSE Events book launch on Tuesday 14 May ➡ ow.ly/ciZo50Rse0o
'The political and transformative potential of feminist and queer archives is centre stage.'
Dr. Margaret Galvan's In Visible Archives U of MN Press. Read the review by Max Shirley 👉 wp.me/p2MwSQ-hkh
'Sylheti people started migrating from Bangladesh to East London in the 1960s and 1970s in search of opportunity, finding work in the garment, catering and hospitality sectors.'
From Sylhet to Spitalfields Shabna Begum Lawrence Wishart Books Naibur Rahman Uupol Ruhun Wasata ➡ wp.me/p2MwSQ-hjc
NEW ✨In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s by Margaret Galvan Dr. Margaret Galvan U of MN Press reviewed by Max Shirley #photography #comics
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As Gods among Men by Guido Alfani Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s examines the history of the #Rich in the West from the Middle Ages to modern times, probing conventional understandings of how great wealth has been accumulated.
Review by Noah Sutter ➡ wp.me/p2MwSQ-hiV
In an excerpt from the intro to What Really Went Wrong Yale University Press London📚, Fawaz Gerges argues that US interventionism during the #ColdWar steered the #MiddleEast away from democracy towards authoritarianism, shaping the region's politics for decades to come.
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I had the pleasure of reviewing Guido Alfani‘s excellent new book on the history of the rich in the West for the LSE Review of Books! ✨
'The unifying thread Alfani identifies throughout history is that Western societies have struggled to find an appropriate role for the rich, and continue to do so.'
As Gods among Men by Guido Alfani Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s reviewed by Noah Sutter 👉 wp.me/p2MwSQ-hiV
Our PhD student Noah Sutter has reviewed the book „As Gods among Men: A History of the Rich in the West“ by Guido Alfani in the LSE Review of Books.
NEW ✨ As Gods among Men: A History of the Rich in the West by Guido Alfani Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s reviewed by Noah Sutter LSE Department of Economic History wp.me/p2MwSQ-hiV
'Begum’s book does a commendable job of weaving the impacts of political events in Bangladesh with the nature of protests in East London.'
From Sylhet to Spitalfields: Bengali Squatters in 1970s East London reviewed Naibur Rahman Uupol and Ruhun Wasata wp.me/p2MwSQ-hjc
'While establishing this foreign policy strategy, the US […] was also building the postwar international financial and trading and security institutions that allowed its competitive corporations to outperform others.'
What Really Went Wrong Yale University Press London📚 wp.me/p2MwSQ-hkr
#WeekendReading : From Sylhet to Spitalfields Shabna Begum Lawrence Wishart Books examines the #Bengali community's struggle for #Housing and belonging in the face of systemic racism in 1970s East London.
Read the review by Naibur Rahman Uupol and Ruhun Wasata wp.me/p2MwSQ-hjc